Staying relevant in tumultuous times

The Israel Association of Electronics and Information Industries (IAEI) has published a survey detailing the extent of the projected layoffs in the high-tech sector, as pessimism grows about the state of the economy in general and the high-tech sector in particular. The figures reveal that Israel's high-tech industry is on the verge of an acute crisis that could see the loss of 35,000 jobs.

by globes.co.il

Prediction - is not gratifying labour. There are about 2,000 High-tech engineers and IT professionals already lost they job places here in Israel, and more will in near half-year period. (Amdocs, Comverse, Cisco, ...)

Google declares about 10,000 layoffs worldwide, - how big % of them in Israel – we will find out soon … Same dismal mood hover in SAP Israel… (based on my friend expression, - he work there about 3 years and realize that in these days things are going to change).

So, how to stay relevant on current job place or while new job hunting? Absolutely clear – to be pulled out from avalanche of appeals and CV’s HR head hunters has already these days, most important is to have some “distinctive feature”.

Many words are stated and articles are written about how important not only to have profiles in LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and etc …, but be an active user on daily basis.

Huge amount information is over on mentioned “social media channels”, and to success to cutch needed job it is very critical to be in first 10 applicants.


But most important thing – START YOUR OWN BLOG !!! Once again – there are a lot of articles available about WHY TO BLOG, but I like to recommend this one - “Save Your Career, Start a Blog” By Joseph Jaffe.

“So, if I may, a suggestion that may not help you keep the job you have, but may help you get the next job-and help you keep it. The advice? Start a blog. Start it now. I'll give you 10 reasons why…”

Summarizing in short, BLOGging:
- self education
- always tuned/updated
- evolution/keeps smart
- in sight progressive community
- indirect self promotion
- ...

(You are more than welcome to enlarge this list)

Some useful tips by ERIC TURKEWITZ

Web 2.0 - a la Politicians

The campaign site for Binyamin "Bibi" Netanyahu, the Israeli candidate for prime minister, is a mirror-image copy of BarackObama.com, flopped to accommodate the right-to-left Hebrew script. Right down to the icons, it mirrors the website developed by Blue State Digital ...

by valleywag.com

How I have mentioned before I hate politicians and they dirty games ... Once again we see the methods they use, - show must go on. So "cheap" COPY-PASTE... Looks like our politicians have no time, - much more easy to steal. Are you ready to give your voice for "Bibi"? Are you really believe that your voice can make sense?

The Evolution of Mobile Phones

Very cute video evolution of mobile phones.
So small time period, but already history ...

More History Videos at 5min.com

Web 2.0 Summit 08

Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco (5-7 November 2008):

The commercial web is now a teenager—it's been fifteen short years since Marc Andreessen released the Mosaic browser. To put this in perspective, television as a commercial medium reached its fifteenth birthday in 1956—the year Elvis Presley made his first appearance on national TV. National news broadcasts were still in their infancy, "As The World Turns" debuted as America's first half-hour soap opera, and "The Price Is Right" began its dominance of the game show genre.

A Conversation with Shai Agassi (Better Place) by Tim O`Reilly - from electric cars platform developing to SAP ex-position ... and back to cars ...




But most I've liked "World Map" from Silicon Valley point of view represented by Rebecca MacKinnon (Global Voices).



Check out all the Web 2.0 Summit highlights, - you can find them here.

Special thanks to blip.tv

Postscript ( Breakfast with Jeff Pulver )

Just two small video reportages for your attention about Jeff Pulver Social Media breakfast on November 5th:

By Oren Todoros - SeoVice:



By Jason Gilinsky - Falafel.tv:


And if you miss this time the event, Jeff will come back to Israel ...

... next breakfast in Tel Aviv is scheduled for December 16th. I will be posting the event on Facebook in a few weeks.

If you have ideas on how to improve the real-time social networking at the breakfast, please let me know.

Breakfast with Jeff Pulver (and friends) in Tel Aviv Harbor, Speedo Beach Bar

Some photos are added from today event to my first FACEBOOK album. It was just great! So many people come ...
Very nice day and warm business atmosphere.
A lots of fun... new and familiar faces... I made some new contacts...

Thanks Jeff, and looking forward to the next meeting.
It is so strange, somebody from USA have to come to Israel to organize so good event...

:-)
My best regards to all of you.
Fabian

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Jeff Pulver again in Tel-Aviv

Yesterday, 30/10/2008 Jeff came back to Tel-Aviv. So, welcome home Jeff… to Holy land…

During my visit I will have a cameo role on the Israeli TV show “Mesudarim.” Mesudarim is the Israeli version of “Entourage.” I am pretty excited about this. :)

When I’m not at any of these events, chances are that I will be in a hotel lobby meeting with (early) early stage startups. At the moment I have about 27 such meetings scheduled. While my meeting schedule for this trip is now fully booked, if any friends are aware of an interesting hi-tech Israeli startups that I should know about, please feel free to send me a message and I will setup a meeting during a future visit.

Looks like "I have missed train"... Anyway I will ask him for meeting during next visit.

More detailed schedule of Jeff Pulver visit you can find on his blog.